Realistic or Modern The Division: The Untold Stories (Intro)

[Riven]

In the year of 2001, a real world exercise tested the emergency response to a bioterror attack on the continental United States. The Operation, was called "Dark Winter." Within just a few days, the simulation spiraled out of control. The operation predicted a rapid break in essential institutions, civil disorder, and massive civilian casualties. Dark Winter, has revealed how vulnerable we've become. Our lifestyle, our security, our safety depends on a delicate and unstable economy. We've created a system so complicated that we no longer understand how to control it. Oil, power, shipping, transport. We live in a complex world, and the more complex it gets, the more fragile it becomes. The system is built on a global supply chain that gets things where they are needed, just in time. We've created a House of Cards, remove just one, and everything falls apart.

And what's fueling the system?
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Money. Americans can spend up to 9 billion dollars in a single day of shopping. Last year, 200 million people swarmed their local stores on November 23rd. We call that day, Black Friday. Did you know that a Flu Virus can survive on the surface of a banknote for up to 17 days? One day, there will be a pandemic. It could begin during the crush of Black Friday sales. A pathogen will jump from tainted banknotes to human skin, onto food, toys, children, and loved ones. By the time Patient Zero feels the first sore throat, millions of people will already be infected.

From this point, the breakdown will happen fast.
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Day 1, Hospitals will reach capacity, panic will strike. Day 2, Quarantine zones will be established, resources will be rationed, transport will go into lockdown. Day 3, Internation trade will stop, the oil will dry up, the stock market will collapse. Day 4, the power will fail, the shelves will be empty, the taps will run dry. And once hunger and despair take hold, people will do anything for survival. By Day 5, everyone will be a potential threat.

In 2007, a new Presidential Directive was signed quietly into law. This maps out the government's response to a crisis. A plan to cope with a real Dark Winter.

It is known as Directive 51.

There are rumours of shadow agencies, sleeper cells, covert agents. But nothing can be confirmed. Our complex world is primed for breakdown. And once the chaos strikes, there won't be resources to save us all. The only question left is.

What will it take, to save what remains.​

 

[Riven]

We didn't know it would be like this. Our training, our preparations, all of it, it didn't prepare us for this. We have come from everywhere, recruited from the best of the best, all relocated to New York as our area of deployment. We have never met each other, never knew a single thing about each other, only, that we are among hundreds of other agents trying to keep control before we lose New York.

By our day of activation, it's been days of chaos, gunfire and screams are now a social norm in the world outside. People have become fearful and mad, desperately trying to fend for themselves. To this day we've been living our normal lives, working, until, the call came. The call to finally take our step.

We don't know exactly how many agents are there. Only that we are a small fraction of a bigger piece. All that matters is, we have a mission, and we can't afford to fail.​